Souly Solar Rebuilds

Just found a great resource for open source images.  Its called WikiMedia commons.  It works like WikiPedia, volunteers post, edit, and manage multimedia content.  The media content that then ends up on in the site library is open for any use commercial, private or otherwise.

What this means for me is a source of almost ready made artwork for the CNC machine. Many illustrations are in SVG format, vector instead of raster, and can be easily edited and resized with InkScape.

As a test I started with this original image except I got the SVG version,

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Decided to work on the gradient for the Tri Spiral and give it another go.  This time I used the Gimps shaped angular gradient to make the center of each arm of the spiral light and the outer edges dark.  After this I selected the white background and changed it to black.

This left the edge still with a little lighter shade then the black background.  Since I did not want the edge milled higher, I used the brush tool to write over all of this slightly lighter color with solid black.  This picture is before the final edit, notice the white on the edges.

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